This week, the House met on 35 bills, fourteen on consent. Only two committees reported bills – Finance and Ways & Means – and all had passed the House from the policy committee. This created a strong presumption that we should pass these bills again! The consent calendar passed on a voice vote, then we ... Read more

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A recent study of California data on pesticide contamination in the state’s produce crops found widespread per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) residues in numerous fruits. Concerns about the presence of chemicals in Americans’ food have escalated in recent years, amplified by warnings about the role of food quality in the chronic disease epidemic chronicled by ... Read more

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This week, on GrokTALK!, another No Kings protest weekend with gobs of idiots and fools, many in elected office, who are lending their names to an undertaking funded primarily through mouthpieces of the Chinese Communist Party. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. “Tradition is not the worship of ... Read more

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A funny thing happened on the way to the California Gubernatorial Debate. It had to be canceled. Why, with ten candidates vying to be the top two contenders for the office, would they cancel that debate? There are ten candidates. The Local ABC affiliate is hosting, along with the University of Southern California (USC). The ... Read more

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Let me start by saying a few words about the Society for Industrial Archaeology (SIA).  I was a paid member of the Northern New England chapter back in the days when there was a quarterly newsletter on paper.  I had to be the youngest member then, and perhaps the only woman attending their events who ... Read more

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Welcome back for another installment of Momday memes. You fix after a weekend with nary a meme in sight, at least ot on our pages, but we’re here to remedy the situation. Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or ... Read more

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In the arid mountains of Iran, a terrifying engineering marvel has been carved into the bedrock. In the arid mountains of Iran, a terrifying engineering marvel has been carved into the bedrock — not for the benefit of the people, but to ensure the survival of a regime.  While 2026 finds the average Iranian family struggling ... Read more

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Today on the Morning Update, for years GraniteGrok has been at the rhetorical tip of the spear, warning people about the slippery slope of allowing government-assisted (legislated, managed, and approved) medical dying – and …its advocates keep proving us right. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Ep 138 ... Read more

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Lighting on industrial premises has long ceased to be just a technical detail of infrastructure.

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When it comes to trying to evaluate or explain human behavior, it is not the time to resort to generalizations. It is not beneficial to stereotype, as that immediately discredits any of your observations, determinations, or opinions. But when it comes to Liberals or Democrats, I am starting to agree with Donald Trump when he ... Read more

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JBS Foods is battling its workers at a Colorado facility over wages and other policies the local union claims are unacceptable. Workers launched a strike against the company on March 16, exposing the economic tensions among corporations, workers, and consumers. The strike also highlights the problems with communism compared to free markets. The JBS Strike ... Read more

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In this episode of the Granite Discourse, the guest is John E. Sununu. John served in the US House of Representatives from 1997 to 2003 and in the US Senate from 2003 to 2009. He is currently running for the Republican nomination for the 2026 NH Senate race. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own ... Read more

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Millions of people discovered THE inconvenient truth during the thing we call COVID. The COVID Era, the COVID experiment, the Pandemic, the Plandemic, the Wuhan Flu, China Virus, a modern Dark Ages, during which the church of scientism was not to be doubted. That cabal started with governments who trotted out “experts” to tell us ... Read more

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Massachusetts lost an estimated 145,000 residents to New Hampshire over the last 20 years, a Josiah Bartlett Center analysis of U.S. Census migration data shows. For scale, that number of people living in one place would be Massachusetts’ fourth-largest city, larger than Cambridge and slightly smaller than Springfield.  The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 369,368 ... Read more

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The corridors of power in Brussels and the grand palaces of European capitals have served as the ultimate stage for a 47-year betrayal. Since the black day of the 1979 Revolution, while the Iranian people bled under the lash of a medieval theocracy, European leaders have played the role of the willing enabler. They trade ... Read more

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An effort to make Colorado the first US state to fully legalize prostitution (or, politically correctly, “sex workers”) has failed to gain sufficient oomph to become law. The initiative’s mega-flop reveals voter distaste for some ultra-progressive “social justice” policies. George Soros at Work The usual suspects have backed legalized prostitution nationwide. George Soros and his octopus of ... Read more

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Any body labled a Senate typically sucks. It can’t be counted on. Most of its members are more beholden to donors and special interests than to the people. We need to repeal the seventeenth amendment, but that’s not happening anytime soon, so we’re stuck with this swampiest of drags on meaningful reform. That’s not to ... Read more

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Or Say I’m Exercising a “Jihad” In various attacks in the New Hampshire media by journalists associated with the Catholic Church, whose law firm, Nixon Peabody, also represents the NHCADSV, I have been called various names and been accused of a “Jihad” against the NHCADSV.  Journalists should look up the meaning of a word before ... Read more

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This week, on NE Take, A. J. gives a postmortem on his discussion with Andru Volinsky on his 3-3 Tax Savings Plan to fund New Hampshire schools through an income tax. A chat with a dishonest, smug leftist who does not have a solution to education funding. Andrew Demers: Income tax won’t solve NH’s school ... Read more

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Last November, I reported on an announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s competitions. The move began last year, after World Athletics required anyone competing as a woman to undergo a genetic test. The IOC met to discuss and announced its plan to require a test that ... Read more

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